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Ebay could GREATLY improve thier feedback system by adding a signle line of code....

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Originally posted by: Elemental007
Originally posted by: Yzzim
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Maybe he feels superior by having the knowledge, but deep down inside he feels inferior about everything else. He has to latch on to the one thing that makes him feel superior - his programming knowledge.
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That logic is so flawed it's amazing. I'm not even going to begin to address it. I have a lot of respect for notFred but I'm going to make you elaboare more and address my points individually before I spend time with a response.
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How is it flawed??

I know many people that feel very inferior about many things but latch on to the things that make them feel better about themselves and better then everyone else.

The only thing flawed is the fact that I'm up at 4:30am talking about an inferority/superiority complex 😕
 
Originally posted by: gopunk
Originally posted by: Yzzim
Originally posted by: gopunk
and all you people posting about notfred are just trying to feel superior by pointing out the shortcomings of other people, and also to show off what you learned in psych 101. and i'm posting here to feel superior.... AAACK IT'S NEVERENDING.

yes, that's right, everything we do is to ultimately make ourselves feel better 🙂
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why would you feel superior

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edit: goddamn taht smilie is girly....
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Don't worry, it suits you fine! 😀
 
Originally posted by: notfred
Originally posted by: Shockwave
I think it shows an inferiority complex... he feels less signifigant then others here and so does this to help boost his self esteem.
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That's not true. I post regular expressions and other abstract concepts because I enjoy being able to talk to people about subjects I find interesting. If I post that expression without an explanation, and someone comes into the thread and says "Yeah, those AAA+++" things are annoying, then I know I have found someone else, in fact one of the very few people in this world, who actually understands regular expressions. It gives me a potential opportunity to talk to someone new about one of my interests.

When a skateboarder says "I did a heelflip to darkslide, 180 out" or something like that, and doesn't explain what it means, he's doing it because he's talking to other skaters, not becuase he feels inferior to those who don't know what a "heelflip to darkslide, 180 out" is.

The fact is that very few people are familiar with regualr expressions, and actually this forum is a better than average place to find those few people. Does it alienate the people that don't know regualr expressions? Maybe, but all they have to do is scroll down a few posts and find an answer. I don't do it because I feel superior or inferior to anyone else, I do it to draw out people with common interests.
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Playing the devil's advocate here... you could have posted this in the programming forum...

That being said, I don't really care what people post (including notfred). I could post jargon about chemical engineering... Man, today was a rough day.... I had to spec out the baffles for a new U-tub HEX and design a trayed stripper-absorber unit to scrub SO2 with an ammine. Or try this one on for size... The boundry conditions on simple shearing flow allow the Navier-Stokes equations to reduce to simple differential equations at large time scales in fully developed laminar flow. At least it is english though...

Ryan
 
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and a little off-topic, notfred helps a lot of people despite his so called superiority complex. 😛 far beyond what someone would do just to make themselves feel better.
 
Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
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and a little off-topic, notfred helps a lot of people despite his so called superiority complex. 😛 far beyond what someone would do just to make themselves feel better.
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I should have been more clear in my statement...but I wasn't "attacking" notfred. I was just using this as an example and elaborating on what was said earlier.

I don't know notfred personally, i've never talked with him and have only gotten to know him through his posts here at AT. He seems like a very nice guy. I'm in no position to state whether he has a certain complex or not.
 
Originally posted by: yellowperil
The coked ardvark smels great! A+ seler
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Now that I look at the code a bit more it looks like it was just meant to stop repeating "A"s, "+", and "!"
 
Wow. Seems my 2 cents got about 10 bucks worth of return....Wish all my investments were as lucrative 😀

As has been said though, its devils advocate. If he said it in the Programming section fine. But here?
Also, i dont think many people here dont respect the hard work most of the forum members have put into our educations and/or careers. I've worked my ass off to get where I am, I've also made it through 3 rounds of layoffs and 2 re-orgs because of it. I could go on about fiber optic signalling and protocols, access problems, line coding errors etc etc etc. I dont. If I do, I would throw in a brief explanation of what it was I was talking about right away. Not because I felt anyone here was somehow not giving me the respect i deserve, but simply because we each have our areas of specialites.
I wouldnt ask a programmer to stress test a DS3 with an Adtech test set due to CRC errors, and I wouldnt expect a programmer to ask me to write program to access a restricted database and return all results matching some criteria.

I just think in a General section its better to talk TO someone (your audience) rather then above then. In Forums focused on our particular areas of specialty however, I expect to see alot of technical speak.
 
For those who still don't see how it works:

s/((A)+||(\+)+||(!)+)/$2$3$4/g;
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s/string1/string2/g == replace string1 by string 2, and continue with the next occurance of string1 (the g at the end means it should repeat until the end)

(string1a)+ means one or more A's in a row.
|| is 'or'
\+ is a +, the \ is needed to treat it like a character rather than proceed to add what's on both sides of the + sign together.
$2$3$4 points to the A/+/! characters, whichever one was found at that point.

So in total:

Repeat until the end of the text: (replace ( (One or more A's) or (One of more +'s) or (one or more !'s)) with a single one of whichever character was found)
 
Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
For those who still don't see how it works:

s/((A)+||(\+)+||(!)+)/$2$3$4/g;
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s/string1/string2/g == replace string1 by string 2, and continue with the next occurance of string1 (the g at the end means it should repeat until the end)

(string1a)+ means one or more A's in a row.
|| is 'or'
\+ is a +, the \ is needed to treat it like a character rather than proceed to add what's on both sides of the + sign together.
$2$3$4 points to the A/+/! characters, whichever one was found at that point.

So in total:

Repeat until the end of the text: (replace ( (One or more A's) or (One of more +'s) or (one or more !'s)) with a single one of whichever character was found)
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THANK YOU!
I can see how it works, but could never write it or have figured it out on my own.
 
I think he posted just fine. He knew durned well that the helpful people here would explain and critique his bit of code.

Personally I'd miss the AAAAA++++ if I couldn't put it in the feedback. "Good buyer/seller" is all I can ever come up with, and it fills up the line.
 
Originally posted by: Shockwave
Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
For those who still don't see how it works:

s/((A)+||(\+)+||(!)+)/$2$3$4/g;
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s/string1/string2/g == replace string1 by string 2, and continue with the next occurance of string1 (the g at the end means it should repeat until the end)

(string1a)+ means one or more A's in a row.
|| is 'or'
\+ is a +, the \ is needed to treat it like a character rather than proceed to add what's on both sides of the + sign together.
$2$3$4 points to the A/+/! characters, whichever one was found at that point.

So in total:

Repeat until the end of the text: (replace ( (One or more A's) or (One of more +'s) or (one or more !'s)) with a single one of whichever character was found)
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THANK YOU!
I can see how it works, but could never write it or have figured it out on my own.
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Heheh.

 
Originally posted by: Zugzwang152
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and a little off-topic, notfred helps a lot of people despite his so called superiority complex. 😛 far beyond what someone would do just to make themselves feel better.
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Being able to help other people is enough to make me feel better. Message forums are about give and take...
 
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